Tullio LombardoItalian, 1455–1532
Relief panel
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Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- The museum's own collection data
About the sculpture
This floral ornament is a plaster cast after an original of Tullio Lombardo from architectural components of the early Renaissance church of Santa Maria de' Miracoli in Venice.
This and other casts were part of an extensive assemblage of 487 such fragments purchased in 1851, among the earliest casts acquired by the museum as "a collection originally made for the use of Schools of Design under the Direction of the Board of Trade". Later in the 1850s, when the collection was moved to South Kensington, the casts were supplemented with composite photographs of other, related pilasters, and around 1900 such casts were being displayed alongside photographs showing fuller views of the buildings from which the details were taken.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- REPRO.1851-16
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Victoria and Albert Museum: the museum's own open data · fetched 10 days ago
- Image: Victoria and Albert Museum — © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
